In an eight page paper entitled, Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Revealed in the May 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report, Physicians for Human Rights...
created by Karen Hatter | 11 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago 107 views | 30 recommendations | 3 comments
Buffalo Minnesota USA- May 6, 2009by Don Mashak
Students at Buffalo Senior High had the opportunity today to see the Minnesota Supreme Court subtly yet tyrannically violate the 1st Amendment providing for Freedom of...
The Iowa Supreme Court has now ruled that the state's gay marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of same sex couples. It was in 1998 that the Iowa legislature made changes to the marriage ruling that defined...
created by Amy Judd | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 155 views | 36 recommendations | 3 comments
Freedom Of Expression vs. Political Will
BC Supreme Court Justice Frank Cole struck down what is known as Bill 42, or the gag law that prohibits pre-election advertising by third parties. With the May 12...
created by steffanileman | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 179 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, ruled the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional when applied to exclude same-sex married couples from federal employee benefits. "9th U.S....
Michelle Malkin's Blog, Hot Air, is causing a chill for 1st Amendment advocates. The blog is reporting that a Michigan city has found an annoyance exception nettled in the First Amendment. " The city of...
While the ACLU and the EFF demand that the Department of Justice disclose when they're listening in on Americans' mobile phone conversations and tracking their movements via phone signals, they're met with the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 267 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
So far the federal government hasn't acknowledged a second, smaller safe injection site in Vancouver, but I'm sure a write-up in the Globe and Mail will up their profile.Meanwhile, East Vancouver's Insite is...
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a much-anticipated ruling issued Thursday, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional....
A man from Illinois, Steve Kreuscher, wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name to 'In God We Trust'."Kreuscher (CROY'-shir) says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 343 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Yet another church and state story out of Madison, Wisconsin. At issue: a student's art landscape piece that included a cross and the words "John 3:16 A sign of love." This from the Associated...
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Protestors rejoiced when Christian Von Wernich was convicted in Argentina for his collaboration with the military government during the country's 'Dirty War'.Survivors at the trial said that Von Wernich won the trust of prisoners and then gave material from their confessions...
"Karin Karlekar, from the nonpartisan group Freedom House, told USINFO that a number of countries, especially in Latin America and Africa, are eliminating the laws. Violation of insult laws can lead to journalists...
created by uusjio | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 124 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Payback Time: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
Perrspectives | August 6, 2007
This past week, the Bush administration added insult to injury over its illegal program of NSA domestic surveillance . During...
created by cb3tech | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 486 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
A sharply divided court in Cincinnati has decided that you can't sue the Federal Government for spying on you because you can never be sure that they are spying on you. To know such information is a state...
created by mtippett | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 460 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment